Credits
Artistic Direction, Concept, Performance: Lois Alexander
Artistic Advisors: Suzy Blok, Fernando Belfiore
Dramaturgical Support: Alexandra Hennig
Costume: Steffi Barbian
Sound Design: Sea Novaa
Set Design: Nina Kay
Text Source: She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks by M. NourbeSe Philip
Research: New Adventures Residency, Dansmakers
Co-production: Dansmakers Amsterdam, Sophiensaele Berlin
Premiere Information
Premiere: Tanztage Berlin, January 2020
Past Performances: Dansmakers Amsterdam, Julidans Festival, B.Motion Festival, Kilowatt Festival, among others
Support
Supported By: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, 3Package Deal
About
Neptune takes water and its shifting states as a lens for transformation, instability, and becoming. Surrounded by melting blocks of ice, Lois Alexander moves through a landscape that holds both vulnerability and force, examining how the body absorbs, resists, and rewrites the structures that shape it. What begins as a personal inquiry expands into an elemental universe where form, sound, and presence slip between states. Created in collaboration with scenographer Nina Kay and composer Sea Novaa, Neptune marked a defining early work in Lois Alexander’s practice and continues to resonate as a study of transition and embodied change.
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